Once more, this is love: it rings and you open up unless it looks like an ax murderer.

Anyone who gives you a cinnamon roll fresh out of the oven is a friend for life.

Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree on what they are made of, where they come from, or how often they should appear.

Temper tantrums, however fun they may be to throw, rarely solve whatever problem is causing them.

I didn't realize this was a sad occasion.

They didn't understand it, but like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby - awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.

Chestnuts in stuffing tastes like someone chewed up a tree branch and then French-kissed it into your mouth.

The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it turns up.

Accidents happen all the time.

Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have.

The universe was playing with loaded dice, which insured an excess of cowards in our ranks.

I just wanted to be the first one to fly for America, not because I'd end up in the pages of history books.

I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.

All skills are learnable.

But some day sooner or later our passion would have cooled - inevitably - it's the way with everything human.

No picture can be good which deceives by its imitation, for the very reason that nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

I sketch in a way that people can nearly do the dresses without me coming in for a fitting. Every single detail, every proportion, every cut -- everything.

I've learned to stop being so serious!

Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved.

I never saw anything more like real warfare in my life - only the attack was all on one side. The police, in spite of their numbers, apparently thought they could not cope with the crowd.